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	<title>Our Earth/Ourselves</title>
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	<description>Environmental psychology, contrasting worldviews, Oregon Indians, indigenous ecology, Pacific Northwest history, folklore and oral traditon</description>
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		<title>Our Earth/Ourselves</title>
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		<title>Lessons from Yellowjackets: Speaking with the Natural World</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/lessons-from-yellowjackets-speaking-with-the-natural-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Folklore and Oral Tradition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years back, my then three year old daughter and I were sitting in our front yard when a decidedly threatening man appeared and insisted I hire him.
For what, he never said.
In fact, without listening to my answer&#8211;which was an instinctive &#8220;no&#8221;&#8211; he let himself through our side gate and went around to the back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1593&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telling the Stories of Consumer Products</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/telling-the-stories-behind-consumer-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest and farm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Tilth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white house farmer's market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We have to remember our source of nourishment. Or we will starve.”
Elizabeth Woody, Warm Springs Indian Reservation (A Song to the Creator)
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In spite of Elizabeth Woody’s warning, modern consumer society is geared to making us forget the natural sources of our nourishment.  Supermarket stacks of saran-wrapped hamburger packages disguise entirely their resemblance to their natural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1448&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;When the Soldiers Come, the People Leave&#8221;: Life Under Israeli Occupation</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/when-the-soldiers-come-the-people-leave-life-under-israeli-occupation/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/when-the-soldiers-come-the-people-leave-life-under-israeli-occupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BirZeit University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian-Israeli relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace in the Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;There is a Palestinian saying that all the politicians should be sent to the moon so that they can look back and see that we all live on one world&#8221;&#8211; a Palestinian-American teacher at BirZeit.
During the recent US election, Canadian Sabina Lautensach observed in her editorial in the Journal of Human Security that those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1350&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Rights for Nature</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/legal-rights-for-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Earth and Ourselves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal rights for the natural world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership worldview]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We talk about the state sovereignty and the tribal sovereignty, but those ant communities under the big fir trees are sovereign too.. some nights you can&#8217;t see the stars at all [because of city lights]. That&#8217;s wrong.  Those stars are sovereign. They have a right to be seen&#8221;.
Billy Frank, Jr., in Messages from Frank&#8217;s Landing
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In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1219&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixing Discovery and Conquest: A Recipe for Destruction</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/mixing-discovery-with-conquest-recipe-for-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/mixing-discovery-with-conquest-recipe-for-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The worldview that links discovery with conquest has caused considerable social and environmental harm.   This attitude has deep roots in Western history.  Julius Caesar’s famous motto Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered), featured on some  modern t-shirts, couldn&#8217;t be more clear on this point.  Discovery is a prelude to conquest.
Caesar himself didn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1112&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Berry 1914-2009</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/thomas-berry-1914-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope and vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the death of Catholic priest and theologian (or &#8220;geologian&#8221;, as he preferred to call himself) Thomas Berry at age 94, I would like to reflect upon his model of a morality centered in the earthly community of life.
Thomas Berry’s philosophy was strikingly immanent and earth-centered.  In his seminal Dream of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1099&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>67</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Dangerous Reverence: Destroying What We Love</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/a-dangerous-reverence-destroying-what-we-love/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/a-dangerous-reverence-destroying-what-we-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[idealization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northwest history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Crossing the Next Meridian, Land, Water and the Future of the West, Charles Wilkinson notes two ideologies that resulted in the destruction of the salmon runs that once yielded 42 million pounds annually on the Columbia River alone.
The first is the sense of dominance that saw the land only as a resource for human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=1044&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Dandelion Wars: The Costs of Lawn Cosmetics</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/the-dandelion-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/the-dandelion-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Earth and Ourselves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herbicide dangers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The earth wants peace.  The birds who eat the corn do not want poison…The wind does not want to carry the stories of death.”
&#8211;Linda Hogan, Dwellings
In many home improvement stores this spring, the first thing you will come upon is a display indicating that humans are engaged in a war against weeds and insects—a war [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=996&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>On Knowing What You Want</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/on-knowing-what-you-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 18:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Earth and Ourselves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I’d like for Mother’s Day is for our children to get what they want. But first they have to know what that is.
And that isn’t an easy determination for any of us in the modern age&#8211;and especially for women. According to the authors of the Mother-Daughter Revolution, girls in our society start out with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=971&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>117</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Second Annual Willamette River Blessing</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/willamette-river-blessing-invitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thirteen indigenous grandmothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agnes Baker Pilgrim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures of the second annual blessing of the Willamette River led by Takelma Siltetz elder and chair of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers Agnes Pilgrim Baker this past Sunday, April 26 at at the EWEB Willamette River Plaza in Eugene, Oregon.

Siletz Takelma Elder &#8220;Grandma&#8221; Agnes Pilgrim Baker speaks to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=946&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Love a River</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/how-to-love-a-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agnes Baker Pilgrim]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[McCloud River]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lower Chehalis elder Henry Cultee obtained his own long life from sharing it with the river his people named themselves for. Hum-m-m-ptulips, that river was, its name humming along on the tongue the way its rifles hummed along, so that it cleaned itself out in three days after a rain.
His elders had taught him to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=938&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Pricing the Priceless</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/the-dangers-of-pricing-the-priceless/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/the-dangers-of-pricing-the-priceless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genetic engineering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Northwest treaties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Land was something priceless&#8211;something that could not be bought or sold at any price&#8211; in the worldview of the traditional peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
The local peoples gathered at the treaty proceedings at Cosmopolis on the Olympic Peninsula expressed the utmost frustration in their negotiations with Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens on this point. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=922&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can you not plant a rose in wartime?</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/how-can-you-not-plant-a-rose-in-wartime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope and vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaviotas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lily Yeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willow Rosenthal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They always put social experiments in the easiest, most fertile places.  We wanted the hardest place.  We figured if we could do it here, we could do it anywhere.&#8221;
&#8211; Paolo Lugari (Gaviotas)
Some forty years ago, Paolo Lugari and a group of supporters founded the community of Gaviotas on the llanos-an aluminum-laced plain in Colombia situated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=900&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misusing Darwin:  How a limited view of “Survival of the Fittest” Makes us Unfit for Survival</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/how-%e2%80%9csurvival-of-the-fittest%e2%80%9d-makes-us-unfit-for-survival/</link>
		<comments>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/how-%e2%80%9csurvival-of-the-fittest%e2%80%9d-makes-us-unfit-for-survival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contrasting worldviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofeminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Earth and Ourselves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survival of the fittest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The competitive notion of &#8220;survival of the fittest&#8221; keeps us from understanding evolution and society&#8211;and acting accordingly.  The latter, also known as social Darwinism-and touted as Manifest Destiny in US pioneer history, asserts that societies on the side of &#8220;progress&#8221; are  destined to overcome and replace others as a matter of natural (or divine) law. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=877&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countering NIMBY with the story of a child in front of a tank: Seven generations and seven continents</title>
		<link>http://holdenma.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/countering-nimby-with-the-story-of-a-child-in-front-of-a-tank-seven-generations-and-seven-continents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madronna Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion at a distance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIMBY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven generations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the world we would live in (and what our children could look forward to) if we all held to the standard proposed by my student, Rachel Brinker, who recently wrote:
&#8220;Consider the effect of your actions on not only yourself, but your children, seven generations from now. I would like to base a paradigm shift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holdenma.wordpress.com&blog=2199622&post=862&subd=holdenma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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